Yoking-clip for securing plaster-boards to metallic studding.



M. H. JESTER. YOKING CLIP FOE SECURING PLASTER BOARDS T0 METALLIC STUDDING.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 19, 1913.

Patented June 30, 1914.

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MAR N H. JESTEB, OE DENVER, COLORADO, ASSIGNOB TO THE M. H. JESTEIR, INVESTMENT COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF COLORADO.

YQKINZGL'Y-CLIIE' EOE, SECURING: PLASTERr-BOARDS T METALLIC STUDDING.

ll,llll,553. v Specification of Letters Patent, Patent d J $119 1914 Application filed April 19, 1913. Serial No. 762,356.

Toall whom it may concern! ably firmly enough against the opposite Be it known that l, MARVIN H. J ESTER, asides-of the yoking clip to require pressure citizen of the States of America, reof thc thumbof a partition 613801301 170 force siding in the city and county of Denver and t e yoke-Shaped clip through the aperture 6 State of Colorado, have invented a new and In the plates, thus making a self-sustaining, 6o f l Y ki guflli f r S uring Pl t rcombining and holding fit between the yoke Boards to Metallic Studding, of'which the lip, he channel bar, and the plate, which f n i i a ifi ti permits them to stay assembled together M j ti l t i nts i wherever placed along the vertical height 1 0 yoking clips for securing plaster boards to of the hannel-bars without slipping apart 65,

metalli t ddj d th bje t f my from each other, which is a feature of imvention are: First. To provide a cheap and portance when erecting partitions, as it ensimple channel stud yokmg clip for securing ables 6119 man t0 erect partitions without any 'plaster'boards to the channel bar studs. Secassistance, as would be the case if these parts end. To provide a clip which i f i ti ll were so loosely fitted together as to slip 70 held upon the stud, thus enabling any 'nu easily apart,-in which case they would have her of clips to be secured in position 'on the to be held y One m While n r laced studding before the laster boards are atth plaster boards 7 in position to. e setached, theieby" greatly reducing the time ur ly k yed or locked to them.

and labor otherwise required in such work. Theplaster boards 7 are thin boards made 75 I attain these objects by the mech i m illu of plaster of Paris, and other materials, and t t d. i th accompanying drawings, i are extensively manufactured and used in which; buildings as a background or support for Figure 1 is from; iew illustrating 3, plu- StllCCO and other-plastering materials. These lit f l te boards secured to studding boards are made in various sizes as to width, so so as to form staggered or broken joint length and thickness, those of about a quar- Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view' i'lluster inch to five-sixteenths of an inch by two trating the application of the form of clip f et square,.or two feet by three feetlong, used when the plaster boards are connected or eighteen inches wide by two feet or thirty to the studding in stag ered form. Fig. 3 Inches g, eing st general y used r s5 is a perspective view 0% the clip and. plate partition work. '1 preferably use plaster in frictional engagemen. And Fig. 4 isa boards of five-sixteenths inch thickness by side view showing a portion of a stud, and two feet wide and three feet in length, with the m nner f curin la ter. boards therethe channel bar yoke clip construction illusto, by the improved c ip. tmted- I Similar letters of reference refer to simi- The cl ps 2 are about twice as long as the lar parts throughoutthe several views. width of the studs 1, so that when they are Referring to the drawings :1 The numeral placed upon the channel bars their free ends 1 designates a metal stud, preferably a chane extend beyond the said bars a distance nel bar stud, as I preferably use the changreater than the thickness of a plaster nel bar form of stud in preference to other board, and these ends are provided with forms of metal stud, such as flat metal bars, holes 8, which are so positioned that their T bars, 2 bars or V bars. centers are distant from the plates I 3 a 2 designates a metal yoke-shaped clip, space corresponding to the thickness of a which is formed to fit over the channel bar. plaster board. When the boards are placed and extend beyond it a short distance, and against the plates 3, with their ends abutover its free ends I place a plate-3, which is ting against the sides of the clip 2, as shown provided with an aperture 42, in its center, by Fig. 2, the ends of theboards will parthat is made to permit the-yoke clip to extially conceal the holes'8, andthe boards arev tend through it and fit snugly in 'it. This clamped to the plates by passingla suitable aperture is formed by cutting slots through wedge, such as a wire nail .9, t rough the the plate in such a way as to release two holes 8, and as the space between the outer equal sized tongue ortions 5, which are margin of the holes and the surface of the bent downwardly and backwar'dly so as to plaster boards is 16510 than the diameter of lie alongside of and to fit snugly and preferthe nails, the insertion of the nail causes the ends of the boards to be-securely clamped to the plates 3. The form of clip illustrated in Figs. 2, 3, and 4 is employed when the laster boards are arranged in staggered ibrm, as shown by Fig; 1. In this arrangement the studs do not I joining ends of the boards, but are back of the plates3, against which the boards rest, so that they permit the boards to be secured with the adjoining ends of each alternate row in the same vertical line, or so as to form staggered joints. B thus eliminating an unbroken joint throug out the length of the studs,'jthetendency of the cracking of the plasterat these points is greatly lessened.

When boards are used of a length correspon ing to the space between three studs, the boards are secured to the intermediate stud by forming holes 2 in them centrally of their length, through which the ends'of clips-2 on the intermediate stud may ass, and nails 9 are assed through the en s of the clip, as in-t e manner above described for clamping the boards at their center's. I have illustrated one clip at the center of each board, but I may employ two clips, placing them in line with the clips at the ends of the board. In practice, the clips 2 are sprun upon the studs, and the plates 3 are lace overthe free ends of the clips until the plate bears against plaster boards are then placed against the plate and the nail is inserted in the a er-- tures of the free ends of the clip, and we ges the plaster boards against the plate and at the same time draws the stud against the p ate, v

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: v

1. In a securing device for plaster boards lie between the ad placed against the the stud. The

as specified, the combination with a stud, of a U-shaped clip thereon, the ends of which extend beyond theplate having a central aperture and integral tongues along the sides of'said aperture, at right angles to the plate, said plate being stud with the ends of the clip extending through its aperture in frictional contact with the said tongues, and a nail which is passed through the apertured ends of said clip thereby to clamp the ends of plaster boards to the plate.

2. In a securing device for plaster-boards, the. combination with astud, of clip-plates having'means' engaging said stud and having extended portions of greater length than the width of the stud, plates'on said stud having apertures through which pass the ends of said clips remote from said stud and stud and are apertured, a

outwardly bent tongues engaging said clips,

and means at said remote ends of the cli s for securing the plaster-boards against said plates.

3. In a securing device for plaster-boards, the combination'witha stud, of U-shaped clips in clamping engagement with said stud, the free ends of said clips being of greater length than the width of plates against the inner side of said stud having apertures through which pass the free ends of said clips and outwardly bent tongues frictionally engaging said clips,'and means at the free ends of the clips for securing the plaster-boards against said plates.

In testimony whereof I aflixin presence of two Witnesses.

' MARVIN H. JESTER.

the stud,

my signature Witnesses G. SARGENT ELLIOTT, ADELLA M. FOWLE. 

